I made the villain right.

The next morning.

Shi Jin and Fan Hua had breakfast together.

Shi Jin maintained a good attitude towards Fan Hua and showed concern for him throughout the meal.

Shi Jin picked up a piece of meat for Fan Hua, who was stunned by her attentive behavior today.

So he looked at her as if waiting for her next words.

The two looked at each other, and she said slowly: "Ayu, have you finished drinking the medicine that Gu'er gave you? Is it effective? I'll let Gu'er take a look at it for you later."

Facing her eager eyes, he felt a little guilty, his eyes flickered, "Mianmian, actually my illness has eased, there is no big problem"

Shi Jin looked at Fan Hua's face and found it was indeed not as pale as before, but she was still worried, so she said, "Let Gu'er take a look, it will be safer this way."

"Okay." He finally did not reject her kindness.

After the two finished their breakfast, they went to the front yard. Du Xuan invited Xu Ruogu over and asked him to take Fan Hua's pulse. Shi Jin watched from the side the whole time, and Fan Hua kept a calm expression. When he met her gaze, there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

When Xu Ruogu had packed up the pulse pillow, Shi Jin asked with concern, "Gu'er, how is A-Yu's illness?"

Xu Ruogu glanced at Fan Hua, then said to her: "Brother's condition has gradually improved. I will prepare new medicine for him. You should pay more attention to his diet on weekdays. You can give him more foods that replenish lung qi, nourish yin and moisten the lungs."

When Fan Hua heard the word "sister and brother", his eyebrows raised. Although he was not familiar with Xu Ruogu, he liked to hear this sentence.

However, Shi Jin's attention was not on this and he did not realize the change in the way Xu Ruogu addressed Fan Hua.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Gu'er."

"Sister Jin, you're welcome," Xu Ruogu said and was about to leave.

Seeing Xu Ruogu was about to leave, he quickly said, "I'll take you there. I have something to tell you."

Shi Jin seemed to have forgotten that Fan Hua was in the room. After she finished speaking, she followed Xu Ruogu out, and Zhi Lu followed behind them.

Fan Hua was stunned for a few seconds when he saw this, as if the scene of her caring about him just now was just an illusion.

Fan Hua looked at Shi Jin's leaving back, a hint of loss flashed in his eyes, and a feeling of sourness arose in his heart.

It was someone who was so kind-hearted and concerned about him just now, but left him alone when he met Xu Ruogu.

Du Xuan, who was standing by, saw that they had all left, and then he reported to Fan Hua, "Master, according to our people's report, Xiao Hong had recently appeared in the slave market, and his behavior was suspicious. He was very alert, so they didn't dare to follow him too closely. At present, we don't know his specific whereabouts."

Fan Hua looked deep in his eyes and said calmly, "Tell them to continue following. If he doesn't change his evil intentions, he will definitely reveal his flaws."

"Yes," Du Xuan thought for a moment, and then said, "Master, there is one more thing. Fumengxuan has been in trouble recently. Someone deliberately slandered Fumengxuan's reputation and spread rumors that we sell fake goods, causing some customers to return the goods."

Hearing this, Fan Hua frowned slightly, with a hint of coldness between his brows.

After a moment, he said indifferently: "Let's go and take a look." Then he stood up and left, and Du Xuan followed closely behind him.

After Shi Jin sent Xu Ruogu back to his yard, she exchanged a few words with him and then asked him about some foods that could replenish lung qi, nourish yin and moisten the lungs, and clear lung heat. She listened and took notes very carefully.

After recording everything, Shi Jin took the lung-nourishing ingredients she had recorded and left the house. She planned to go to West Street to buy some ingredients to cook for Fan Hua.

The master and servant sat quietly in the carriage. Shi Jin found that Zhilu's eyes fell on her intentionally or unintentionally, with a shining eye and a smile on the corner of her mouth. Seeing her suddenly become strange, she felt a little creepy.

She couldn't help but ask, "Zhilu, do you have something to say?"

"Miss, are you in love with your uncle?"

She raised an eyebrow and asked in confusion, "Why do you think so?"

"You care so much about my son-in-law, and you are very concerned about his illness. You do everything for him yourself. If this isn't love, what is it?"

"Ayu takes good care of me on weekdays. I have to learn to be grateful. In this world, there is friendship besides love. Ayu and I are one of them."

Faced with Shi Jin's indifference, Zhilu chose to remain silent.

She thought Shi Jin was confused because he was involved in the matter, but she, as a bystander, could see it clearly.

A few minutes later, the carriage stopped outside a tea shop.

Shi Jin and Zhi Lu went to the market on West Street to pick out the ingredients on the list, then visited a few more stores, and finally collected most of the ingredients until their legs were weak.

They bought ingredients such as white fungus, lily, white radish, yam, peanuts, black fungus, chicken, wolfberry, pear and so on.

As there were too many things, they bought a large basket to carry them, which the two of them could not carry, so she found a servant with a carriage, gave him fifteen taels of silver, and asked him to help transport the things to Fan's house. When the servant saw that Shi Jin was paying a lot of money, he agreed to her request, and the master and servant went back empty-handed.

When Shi Jin was passing by an alley, a woman in the crowd rushed over and bumped into her. She staggered a few steps, and the woman fell to the ground.

She thought she had encountered a scammer, but the woman looked panicked and nervous, and kept looking towards the alley behind her. There was fear and panic in her eyes, as if something was chasing her from behind.

I don’t know if it was because her knee was injured or because her legs were weak from fear, but for a moment she couldn’t stand up and her face turned pale.

Seeing this, she hurried forward to support her and asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

When the woman saw Shi Jin supporting her, she seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and begged, "Miss, please save me! Someone behind me wants to kill me!"

Hearing this, she looked into the crowd and saw several menacing figures moving towards this side. She quickly took the woman who had taken her life and hid in the corner where miscellaneous items were kept.

She was leaning against the wall, looking nonchalant, with Zhilu standing beside her.

They stopped when they saw the woman suddenly disappeared. The leading man looked around the alley, frowned, and ordered sternly: "Search carefully, don't let her run away."

After hearing this, his men looked around and inspected.

When Shi Jin's eyes fixed on the leading man, his eyebrows moved slightly and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

She had seen this man before. The last time she went to the slave market to look for Gu'er, she met one of those suspicious people.

Her eyes moved slightly. Didn't they stop doing slave trading? Why were they chasing after that woman?

The leading man then checked Shi Jin's side, raised his head, and when he saw Shi Jin's face, his eyes suddenly darkened.

He still recognized her; she was the woman who suddenly broke in. He just didn't know how he could meet her again at this time.

The leading man looked at her and asked expressionlessly, "Girl, have you ever seen a woman in blue clothes?"

She thought for a moment, then pointed in the direction ahead and said enthusiastically: "I saw a woman in blue running in that direction. I wonder if she is the person you are looking for."

Hearing this, they chased in that direction. Seeing that they had gone far away, Zhilu supported the woman who was hiding in the pile of debris.

Seeing that the woman was terrified, Zhilu comforted her softly, "They have gone far away, don't be afraid."

The woman relaxed her nervous expression a little, with tears in her eyes, and thanked them repeatedly, "Thank you two girls for saving me."

Shi Jin's eyes flickered, with a hint of doubt in them. She asked, "Are you someone who escaped from the slave market?"

"No, I just accidentally ran into them carrying a corpse, and they wanted to kill me."

This was something she hadn't been able to see, no wonder she was silenced. She had felt that the people in that yard were strange before, and today it seemed that there was something fishy going on, murder and hiding the body?

She didn't think about it any further. In this world, it's best not to meddle in things that don't concern you. This is the philosophy she told herself to uphold.

"For safety reasons, you'd better not go out recently," Shi Jin kindly reminded, and then she and Zhilu left.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, they finally arrived at the carriage park.

As soon as Shi Jin got into the carriage, he heard a familiar voice coming from outside.

"Hey, I'm not eating a free meal. Didn't I mortgage this jade pendant to you? Why don't you want it? I bought this jade pendant from Fu Meng Xuan. It's worth a hundred taels. Don't you know its value?"

Hearing this, Shi Jin lifted the car curtain and looked out, only to see Li Muci standing in front of a restaurant, arguing with the restaurant owner.

I haven't seen him for a long time. Why is he still like this? He never brings enough money when he goes out.

Shi Jin got off the carriage and walked towards them, but heard the shopkeeper say to Li Muci: "Sir, please don't embarrass me. There are rumors about Fu Meng Xuan recently, saying that they sell fake goods. Who knows whether the jade pendant in your hand is real or fake? Who would dare to take it?"

Shi Jin frowned slightly, Fu Mengxuan was in trouble.

"How much money he owed you, I paid it for him"

A clear and pleasant voice came from afar, immediately attracting their attention.

Li Muci suddenly turned around, and when he met Shi Jin's gaze, he pursed his lips and lowered his head in embarrassment for a moment.

When the shopkeeper saw someone wanted to pay for Li Muci, he said cheerfully, "Fifty taels."

Shi Jin glanced at Li Muci, and Li Muci avoided her gaze.

He dared to eat such an expensive meal without any money, and he was not afraid of being beaten. Should she call him Li Yong from now on? The next moment, Shi Jin took out his purse and handed fifty taels to the shopkeeper.

After receiving the money, the shopkeeper smiled and said, "Goodbye, sir. Come again next time." Then he turned around and went back to the restaurant.

Li Muci showed an unnatural smile and said, "Little fairy, why did you come here suddenly? Don't worry, I will return the money to you as soon as I return home."

"You don't have to pay me back. I'm treating you to a meal. So what's wrong with you? You didn't bring enough money when you went out?"

Li Muci said aggrievedly: "No, it's just that I was unlucky today and my wallet was stolen."

Seeing his pitiful appearance, she said helplessly: "You are unlucky. Where are your guards? Why don't they accompany you out?"

"I thought they were too troublesome, so I didn't bring them out," Li Muci said casually.

Li Muci suddenly thought of something, and asked with concern: "I just heard from the shopkeeper that Fumengxuan seemed to have an accident. Are you and Fanhua okay?"

"We're fine. I just found out about this. I plan to go over and take a look later. If you don't have anything else to do, I'll take my leave."

Li Muci saw Shi Jin was going to Fumengxuan, so he also wanted to go over and take a look, so he asked to go with her, "Little fairy, I'll go with you, maybe I can help."

"Okay." Shi Jin did not refuse his kindness.

After that, they got on the carriage. Li Muci and Shi Jin rode in the same carriage and headed to Fumengxuan.

Zhilu didn't expect that Li Muci would ride in the same carriage with them. Seeing that there was suddenly one more person in the carriage, he greeted Li Muci politely, then remained silent and became a little restrained.